Arizona Treasure! Dump Digging and Detecting.
Arizona Treasure! Dump Digging and Detecting.
In January 2020 following our Virginia adventure we travelled to Las Vegas for the SHOT show, then on to Arizona with Tim (Ringmaster) Saylor of ‘Diggers’ fame, Carlotta Brandenburg (CB) and Gypsy Jewels (Zero Discrimination). We then spent a week travelling Arizona dump digging and metal detecting 19th Century Ghost Towns. We hope you enjoy watching our travels and a big thank you to Tim and Carlotta for their Arizona Hospitality!
Happy Fossicking! Colleen and Warren
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Please visit Gypsy’s awesome YouTube adventures ‘Zero Discrimination’:
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Awesome guys!! 🙂
Great video. I’ve always wanted to sift an old dump. Are there any groups in the U.S. that offer that sort of thing for a week of sifting and detecting?
First time to comment, glad to see you here in the states! Best of luck, good hunting and go a little further and do a little hunting with Beau!
It’s very beautiful out there
New subscriber you guys rock, your Wife was kicking it!
This looks like a lot of fun. I would love to dig and also metal detect in areas like this. Are you guys a part of a club?
dont worry about the spikes jumping out at ya….i eat them on my corn flakes
Not a Webelo’s Neckerchief slide Its a Cub Scout Neckerchief Slide.
Awesome video my friend! I can’t wait for our next adventure together! Happy Adventures my friends! ~ Gypsy
I spent some time digging the Jerome and Bisbee dumps. We found all kinds of artifacts!
The interesting urban archeology that I have yet to try, but is on my list is privy digging. I know someone who has found more than a dozen gold coins, and dozens of silver coins digging old privies.
My turn, next!
What a cracking video and finds.
This looks like the Clarkdale dump
Really neat video Warren. Great seeing Tim ( Ringie ) out with you all. Used to watch his show "American Diggers" all the time. Hope you and Colleen have/had a great time. Safe travels friend.
Congrats on that baby locket💥Wow! Never seen anything like that before, very cool.
Cheers for taking us along, will be sure to check out ATC & Zero Disc vids aswell👍😊✌
Very good
Another great vid thanks Warren.
Sweet adventure guys!
How do I know where I can freely go to get gold in Arizona?
What wonderful scenery and crazy cactus lol. I have never heard of a babies details being put on a locket before, an amazing find for you Colleen. The amount of finds from you all was amazing and so great to see them all cleaned up laid out together. Whatever was in the rock shelter Warren I wouldn’t want to disturb it either, it could have been hibernating but who knows what is lurking around in the land there. Thank you for showing us all the wonderful shots of the countryside, a beautiful and wild country that is awesome. Australia seemed very large to me but the US is enormous. Take care and stay safe please my friends, good luck and happy fossicking, love and hugs to you both Mary-Ellen UK
Fantastic finds in that lot!
Great to see you folks enjoying yourselves "up over". 😀
Hi Warren and Colleen. That looked like so much fun!
Amazing finds all round.
Rippa
Love digging dumps – some great finds for you! Are the locations a secret or could you help out a "dumpster diver" looking for a place in southern AZ to check out. Any info much appreciated!
I envy you cruisin’ those very scenic Arizona highways. The fleur de’lis might be off a curtain rod. That birth commemoration locket is just fantastic and i suspect, very rare. Well done.
Sorry to Debbie Downer, but why didn’t you gives the dates of the coins ??? It is important part of the video that was never answered and left the viewers hanging. Otherwise a great video.
Superstition Mountain stay away from it. 100s of years people have chased that treasure and everyone had died
Great finds enjoyed watching
I’m interested in metal detecting I just recieved a gift and it’s a metal detector any info on where to detect legally and how to get permits thank you any links would be helpful
Is it legal to detect the land there?
Great collection of finds 👍
nice
If all those finds were yours and Colleen’s, wow, what a fantastic haul you two made! Those finds are excellent! I can’t believe how much silver coin you found, all those Rosie & Merc dimes (Roosevelts & Mercurys), Washington quarter! And it looks like you bagged a few Mexican coins, as well. I was trying to see if you had a Real (ray-AHL) in there, but without a closeup, can’t tell.
That one coin you found that was stuck to the piece of metal was too fat for a regular penny, unless it was a "fatty" Indian (1859-1864 – it had 1.5g more Cu than the redesign), standard Indian (1864-1909). As the cost of gold rose, with it went copper. and the weight was cut.
Also, you will see the wreath on the back of both Indians and Wheaties (wheaties, 1909-1958, have Lincoln on the obverse: **1943 only = zinc-plated steel).
Until 1858, the one cent coin was a "large cent" (over 1" in diameter) with a female bust sporting different hairstyles (it was reproduced for one year,1868). Lastly, the half-cent, "small cent", tiniest coin we ever made 1793-1857.
Great hunt, great finds, glad you had a successful trip to visit us in the US again! Cheers from So. Oregon!
Wow What a magnificent site!! Beautiful finds all!! 😁😁😁
Should have looked us up when in the area… Cheers and enjoyed the video
So beautiful adventure
Nice job screening. I swear by it, and manufacture them, entirely handheld, 14x22x3 1/2". 1hey have 1/4 inch stainless screen. Haven’t sold one, but have found gold, silver and glass with it, as well as tokens. tags &c. Have a good WWII era dump here, downtown Honolulu. Walking distance of my house is a good 1880s to 1910 Plantation machine shop & general dump, oldest coin yet dug, 1872 Quarter, worn out when lost c1900. I clean with a Muriatic equivalent, swimming pool cleaner. OK on brass& copper, great on silver, not so good on Nickel & alloys. Destroys Zinc & aluminum. Iron needs immediate priming.
Excellent video ! Congratulation on all the awesome finds and good luck on ya`ll next hunt !
Great upload Warren! Such an amazing range of excellent finds, keep up the great work 🙂
Glad you were I. Az great video!
Always fun to spend time with friends from Down Under 🐨
Man that will take half a day to refill the holes.
Warren the long thin piece on the top left looks like printers cast type from a linotype machine. On the long thin edge it will have raised letters if it is.
AWSOME Warren and Coleen very cool finds
I am finding lots over in the West in Kalgoorlie and Murrin Murrin old town
Cheers
Crouch
Loved that video
So was this a club dig where they had to pay the property owner to dig the Town Dump then? Just wondering.
Reminds me as a kid in the California desert fing Indian arrow heads and chunks of obsidian. Lots of rattle snakes too.
Wow! Nice finds! 😊👌
Awesome finds and video !!!
Great adventure Guys..
I’d love to detect Arizona one day..
Woot Woot you came to my home state. Where abouts are you. I live in North Phoenix. Originally from Buckeye. Buckeye’s dessert has lots of goodies in the dirt. Just don’t come in the dead of sunmer. Too many rattle snakes 🐍